ostensible

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This organization’s ostensible goal is to “promote stability, restore dependable and lawful governance, and secure enduring peace in areas affected or threatened by conflict.”

From Salon

But notes of disillusion sound throughout this ostensible success story.

From The Wall Street Journal

All of the growth coming, as Russell notes, detention and deportation being shown to be ineffective at the administration’s ostensible goal of reducing crime.

From Salon

An ostensible crackdown on “waste, fraud and abuse” inside the Social Security Administration is making giving birth even more complicated for some Americans.

From Salon

Decades of relying on the rules of an ostensible meritocracy, however, have proven one thing: that it's an illusory social ideal.

From Salon